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Emissions will increase. I had a car that passed emissions with the cat removed, but that was a 1980 car and the emissions standard were MUCH lower back then.
I sincerely doubt a car built in the past 10 years would pass emissions without a catalytic converter. I know here in Connecticut where they do emissions testing, when my car is running well, the emissions are a hundred times less than the limit. That means without the cat, emissions would skyrocket.
As to fewer emissions than a normal truck, there are two things wrong with that - first, trucks don't have to meet the same emissions as a car, but they do have to meet emissions - I would guess that without the cat, you'd be polluting more than a decent truck. And second of all, the fact that trucks (i.e. pickups and SUVs that people drive like cars) don't have to meet the same requirements as cars is nothing but criminal. So to say your car is only polluting as much as a truck is to say "instead of pouring 10 barrels of poison into the river, I only poured in 3 - does that make me a better person?"
leave the cat on.
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Posts in this Thread:
- is it that bad to the remove the cat?, ryan
, Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:09:38- Yes, Ari
, Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:10:25 <-- Viewing This Message - Save the planet! - install a new cat, DET, Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:04:45
- My SPG smells *great* without the cat. n/m, bazil burns, Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:17:34
- it will smell different without a cat n/m, rob
, Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:58:19 - Hydrocarbons and CO will go up no mater what age (n/m), keithR, Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:28:02
- Re: is it that bad to the remove the cat?, Richard Miller, Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:22:21
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